Sasha, If you are used to unix cron and the format of crontabs, then you might also want to have a look at JCronTab (http://jcrontab.sourceforge.net/), which is supposed to work pretty well with Tomcat (have a look at the first FAQ entry...).
Mats On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 16:33, Sasha Borodin wrote: > I'm wondering what people are doing to schedule/execute tasks in Tomcat... > > Is there any built-in timing services in Tomcat? Are people using external > operating system tools like cron to invoke a class, or hit a servlet? > > Is anyone using a good 3rd party scheduling framework? > > Or is this kind of stuff home-grown right now (java.util.Timer, etc.)? If > you've got your own timer, where do you initialize it (like in a servlet's > init() or a context listener)? > > Thank you, > > -Sasha > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]